Storms, bank closings and crimes in Hawkeye State
State notes report Charles City area storm damage minimal to orchards and light precipitation. Milford National Bank closes temporarily with depositor safety assurance. Obituaries note Colonel Patrick McGuire’s death at 53 and Samuel Hudson’s death from gasoline engine explosion injuries near Hamburg. Fairfield jury convicts manslaughter in a cheese knife case. Linn county sheep shearing prices set. courthouse plaster collapse injures four. Emmetsburg judge grants separation. Burlington pioneers Frank and Mrs. Shay die from gas. Auto enforcement reaches Cedar Rapids. Kulhavy arrest over stock. Conesville farmer Grover Fountain disappears. Dubuque murder conviction for George Lareau. Reinbeck boy dies in bin accident.
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State Department of Agriculture
Charles City
Milford National Bank
Milford
Patrick McGuire
Iowa
Holstein
Samuel C. Hudson
Missouri River
Hamburg
Fairfield
Harry Skinner
Floyd County
L. Livingston
Yeggs
Els Island
Il-Yesrold Kristiana Johnsen
Alborg
Denemark
Atlantic
Corner Bluffs
Faral Bureau Federation
Linn County
Maoxville
Lee
Hentherville
H. P. Johnson
Emmatsburg
Johnson
Clara Hamon
Hamon
Ardmore
Oklo
Frank Shay
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Atherton B. Clark
George W. Kulhavy
Kulhayy
Grover Fountain
Conesville
George D. Lareau
Matt W. Daly
Dubuque
Robert William Brown
Reinbeck
Belfast funeral marks Ireland's deadly Belfast ambush
Patrick and Daniel Duffin were buried in Belfast as Sinn Fein bands and military guards led a funeral procession through Falls Road. Armored cars, guns, and traffic suspension accompanied the cortege amid clashes that left a young man critically wounded in Ola Lodge. Police captured ambush suspects in Newry after a bomb and revolver incident. An Armagh attack on Ballyrea Orange Hall followed with two houses destroyed by bombs.
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Belfast
Patrick
Daniel Duffin
Sinn Feln
Falla Road
King Street
Falls Road
Joseph MacRory
Down ‘and Connor
Sinn Fein
Ola Lodge
New‘ry
County Down
Razerish Homes
Dublin
Indicted in Chicago for auto theft ring under Dyer Act
Six men indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of organizing an auto theft ring oper ating commercially. They allegedly solicited orders for stolen cars and shipped them across state lines, with Indianapolis as the claimed base and Chicago as main supply source. Indicted are William Beville and Seth Beville of Dayton Ohio Roy Repp Fred Soback Fred Snyder and William Price of Dayton.
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Chicago
Federal
Grand
Landis
Indianapolis
Indiana
WiMam Beville
Seth
Dayton
O. Roy Repp
Fred Soback
Fred Snyder
William Price
Police Ambushed in Kilkenny as Kidnapped Constable Held
Dublin reports police and military seeking a kidnapped constable near Fiddown Kilkenny were ambushed from a farm. A firefight left one soldier and several ambushers wounded. The constable escaped. In later clashes two civilians were shot dead before curfew.
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Dublin
Fiddown
County Kilkenny
Justice Department judges reassignment eyed to speed liquor trials
Attorney General Daugherty proposed authorizing the department of justice to assign federal judges between districts to clear crowded dockets in liquor cases. The idea remains tentative with informal talks held with several senators.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Daugherty
News Bits For Busy People Signals Mixed March Trends
Wholesale trade declines eight percent in March per the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. Heavy rains from Dallas disrupt traffic across east Texas. Five Black men attack a Fairfield Ohio jail to free a prisoner. one attacker killed by officers. Government may publish price lists as a consumer guide on commodity costs per Hoover. Babe Ruth ties Babe Ruth with 11th homer for the Giants in Brooklyn game. Garment wages in Cleveland to drop nine to eighteen percent starting May 1 per referees board. Greeks and Jews clash in Constantinople. several injured. British police intervene. Sir Edward Carson abandons politics due to artery hardening. Kansas needs forty thousand harvest hands for wheat, says state employment bureau. Ruth mocks New York in Gotham trash court, fined $25 for speeding. Volstead bill to ban doctors from prescribing beer introduced. Tornado southeast of Pine Bluff damages homes and church near Gould. Britain-US debt talks to resume. Mellon confirms. Willie Dalton on trial in Chicago for $772,000 Liberty bond theft. Oxford English Dictionary complete with Kentish dialect note. Harry Gibbons wealth estimated near one million. proceeds to widow. Raw materials import exceed exports by over $16 million. food exports exceed imports by about $28 million. Commerce figures show unsettled trade patterns.
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Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Dallas
East Texas
Fairfield
Hoover
Kelly
New York Giants
Brooklyn
Babe Ruth
Cleveland
Constantinople
Gondon
Edward Carson
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Babe” Ruth
New York
Gotham
Broadway
Volstead
House Judiciary Committee
Pine Bluff
Ark
Dumas
Gould
Great Britain
United States
Mellon
Willie Dalton
Tria
Chicago
Liberty
Northern Trust Company
London
Harry FR. Gibbons
Mary H. Gibbons
Department of Commerce
Yank flyer escapes Russian prison camp near Moscow
Riga April 27 Capt Merton Co Cooper of Jacksonville Fla Ko elusko squadron flyer shot down on Polish front and captured last July escaped a Moscow area prison camp April 12 and arrived in Riga joined by two Polish officers Seize Thirty Barrels of Liquor Wichita Falls Texas April 23 federal officers confiscated 80 barrels of whisky in a vacant house paid to have been shipped to Wichita pelle from Vangouver British Colum
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Riga
Merton Co. Cooper
Jacksonville
Fla
Koelusko
Moscow
Cooper
Wichita Falls
Tex
Federal
Wichitapelle
Vangouver
Colum
Markets Report Chicago April 21 Grain Livestock Prices
Chicago markets show wheat and flour prices with adjustments across hard and soft winter types. Cattle and hogs move varied amounts from best to average classes, with sheep and lambs listed by head and weight bands.
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Chicago
From a Primitive Cook Book of Happiness and Bread
A fragmented domestic recipe page offers instructions for beef fillet with olive oil dressing, raisin bread, a chocolate loaf cake, tomato fritters, Lady Baltimore cake, and orange sweetbreads with a rich sauce. Details include measurements, mixing steps, baking times, and serving notes.
Garden Spot, Anyway. A Boston geologist claims Eden in Ohio
A Boston geologist and philologist argues Eden lay in the area now Ohio. The piece notes Ohio as a garden spot for growing presidential timber, reflecting a playful exchange about language and teeth in a children’s vignette from Auntie No.
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Boston
State of
Ohio
Brooklyn Standard-Unison
Cuticura Remedies Ad Plugs Personal Care
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment Cuticura Soup and Cuticura Talcum to prevent pimples redness and itching. The ad claims a clear sweet skin result with regular use and notes the items are sold for 25 cents each.
Properly Qualified
A compact note reflects on Lavater’s idea that the generous who are just and the just who are generous may, without warning, approach heaven’s throne.
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Lavater
Unfair of Him Quote Sparks Treginald Joke
A brief exchange shows a speaker admitting cruelty after tossing Treginald aside. The other notes the reason: he quit smoking the speaker’s favorite brand of cigarettes, framing the moment as a light social jab.
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Treginald
Castoria Reminder Echoes With Bears the Signature
A vintage health ad urges mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria for infants and children, noting the product’s long standing use and the familiar signature. The copy emphasizes trust built over eighty years and the lasting relief for upset tummies and teething discomfort.
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Fletcher
What She Had Heard and Lucy Say to Auntie
A brief dialogue piece where Lucy, shy and embarrassed, finally exclaims a greeting as Auntie is about to leave. The scene focuses on Lucy offering Auntie a polite hand and a soft spoken farewell, capturing a tender family moment.
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Lucy
If There's Another World War Then Proof of Satisfaction
The quote argues that a nation shouting "enough" must demonstrate contentment. It posits that if eccentricity equaled genius, all mad houses would become universities, framing wit as a metric of intellect and restraint.
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